Elliptical: The Music of Meshell Ndegeocello is a book of musical commentary by Andre Akinyele and Jon O'Bergh. The authors take their readers on a journey through the complete works of contemporary artist Meshell Ndegeocello, album by album, offering various insights from technical, personal and...

Sometimes, a reader comes across a book that just grabs their heart and their mind from the very first line. For this reader, that was definitely the case with Geisha With Green Eyes by author India Millar. Follow the story of Midori No Me, the...

Whoa! That’s what I thought when I finished reading The Church Murders, the second book in the Greek Island Mystery series by author Luke Christodoulou. Following the same characters from the first book in the series, Captain Costa Papacosta and Detective Ioli Cara, we find...

A richly drawn Western with beautiful descriptions of stark landscapes and situations is how I would describe Texas Yankee: Homecoming by Jerry P. Orange. Our story begins after the conclusion of the Civil War when Joshua Granger, a Yankee cavalryman, returns to Texas, ready to...

Captivate Your Readers (An Editor's Guide to Writing Compelling Fiction) by Jodie Renner is an informative and valuable guide for all fiction writers. The author goes beyond the notion of just writing a great story and gaining instant readers. She gets really meticulous and lets...

Adorable Antics by Victoria Berkhin is a collection of cute poems for kids where they see different animals coming to life through the poet's magic words. The poems introduce readers to a world of not only creatures, but also life and nature. All the poems...

Thomas Lopinski’s The Art of Raising Hell is the story of young Ryan Johnson (nicknamed Newbie by his friends and throughout the book) and is set in the 1970s. Newbie and his father move to Bunsen Creek, Illinois, after the tragic death of his mom...

What if? We all ask this and we often spend an enormous amount of time concocting various answers. In Lemongrass Hope, Kate gets her answer, and in a very surprising way. After a painful miscarriage that results in a marriage proposal and promises of a...

In Kiwi in the Realm of Ra by Vickie Johnstone, when Whiskers makes a time machine, Kiwi is reluctant to let Amy and James take a trip with him. Even if it is a special trip to Ancient Egypt for Amy’s birthday. She relents when...

Haven is a horror novel by Vickie Johnstone and the sequel to I Dream Of Zombies. Sisters Marla and Ellen have already suffered terrifying dreams of the dead returning to life in London, fighting for survival when their worst nightmares suddenly come true. Now, along...

Face-to-Face, Eye-to-Eye: How to Read Faces for Success by Sherry Lane and Richard A. Lacey Ed.D is an informative book on how to read body language. The authors state in the introduction that by reading this book: “You will learn to “see” emotions and attitudes,...

The Very Delicious Strawberry: Twenty Illustrated Zen Stories Adapted for Children is written by Tim Johnson. What is Zen Buddhism? Is it a philosophy that can help children understand their place in the universe? Or, is it something far too complex in its simplicity to...

Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth is a military history book written by Steve Snyder, Howard's son. The author played at being soldiers as a boy, but did not really understand the role his...

Tell Me How You Say Good Night by Teddy O'Malley and Angie Dickens gives the preschool child a precious series of puppy photos to view while someone reads a story about going to bed in the world of puppies. Six puppies are ready for bed....

The Dragoon Deception by L.G. Burchard is a story full of suspense. Maggie Mackenzie finds herself travelling to Arizona to try to discover the truth about the deaths of her husband and son. All she takes with her is a letter she received from her...

In the same way that a teddy bear or a hug makes one feel warm and loved, RyAnn Adams Hall’s tender verses in A Book of Poetry for Young Adults (Volume II) will cause any reader to wax nostalgic for a mother’s love. Neither the...

I am glad I chose to read Not Another Rainy Day by RyAnn Adams Hall with my daughter. The story is about a little girl, Kayleigh, stuck inside on a rainy day. The mother is constantly reassuring her that the rain will stop and distracting...

Olivia is a good girl, always doing what is expected of her. This good girl behavior left Olivia divorced and broken after the ‘right guy’ tore her down. But Love Burns isn’t really the story of the broken down version of Olivia. She meets smoke...

Kissing Katie by Babette James is the story of recently widowed Kate Vanburen and burned out lawyer Matt Powell. Katie spent summers at the shore with her parents, and Matt with his grandparents. They were best friends until Matt’s parents divorced and he just stopped...

In Convincing Cami by Babette James, Cami and Jack have been secretly circling one another for years, their mutual crush hidden and simmering from the moment they met. But when Cami rents the unit next door to Jack’s house and the stars have aligned so...